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Since Edwin Halls groundbreaking discovery of the Hall effect in 1879, magnetism, spin, and quantization have been expanding the scope of Hall effects, continuously driving transformative progress in science and technology. Among them, the…

The surface states of topological insulators, which behave as charged massless Dirac fermions, are studied in the presence of a quantizing uniform magnetic field. Using the method of D.H. Lee[1], analytical formula satisfied by the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 Oskar Vafek

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect holds fundamental importance in topological physics and technological promise for electronics. It is generally believed that the QAH effect can only be realized in insulators. In this Letter, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yu-Hao Wan , Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

The search for topologically non-trivial states of matter has become an important goal for condensed matter physics. Here, we give a theoretical introduction to the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect based on magnetic topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

When a two-dimensional electron gas is exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field and an in-plane electric field, its conductance becomes quantized in the transverse in-plane direction: this is known as the quantum Hall (QH) effect. This…

Development of new, high quality functional materials has been at the forefront of condensed matter research. The recent advent of two-dimensional black phosphorus has greatly enriched the material base of two-dimensional electron systems.…

We show that for the case of a many valley host semiconductor an edge channel (EC) related non-local behaviour can persist also in the 3D-regime where the quantum Hall effect (QHE) is already quenched. We demonstrate that the QHE is…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Oswald , G. Heigl , G. Span , A. Homer , P. Ganitzer , D. K. Maude , J. C. Portal

These lecture notes yield an introduction to quantum Hall effects both for non-relativistic electrons in conventional 2D electron gases (such as in semiconductor heterostructures) and relativistic electrons in graphene. After a brief…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-21 M. O. Goerbig

Interplay between the topological surface states and bulk states gives rise to diverse exotic transport phenomena in topological materials. The recently proposed Weyl orbit in topological semimetals in the presence of magnetic field is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Xurui Zhang , Yeonghun Lee , Vivek Kakani , Kun Yang , Kyeongjae Cho , Xiaoyan Shi

A two-dimensional array of quantum dots in a magnetic field is considered. The electrons in the quantum dots are described as unitary random matrix ensembles. The strength of the magnetic field is such that there is half a flux quantum per…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Ziegler

Recent experiments suggest that low carrier density three-dimensional (3D) metals ZrTe$_5$ and HfTe$_5$ exhibit the 3D quantum Hall (QH) effect with Hall resistivity plateaus and a metal-insulator transition in strong magnetic fields. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Kaiyuan Gu , Kai Torrens , Biao Lian

We have observed in a low density two-dimensional hole system (2DHS) of extremely high quality (with hole density p=1.6x10^{10} cm^{-2} and mobility \mu=0.8x10^6 cm^2/Vs) that, as the 2DHS is continuously tilted with respect to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Pan , G. A. Csathy , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The planar Hall effect in 3D systems is an effective probe for their Berry curvature, topology, and electronic properties. However, the Berry curvature-induced conventional planar Hall effect is forbidden in 2D systems as the out-of-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Koushik Ghorai , Sunit Das , Harsh Varshney , Amit Agarwal

Drude weight, historically associated with the longitudinal Drude conductivity, can be generalized to describe the transverse or Hall component of the extrinsic conductivity tensor. In particular, transverse Drude weights, such as band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Miaomiao Wei , Longjun Xiang , Fuming Xu , Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang

The quantum valley Hall effect (QVHE) has been observed in a variety of experimental setups, both quantum and classical. While extremely promising for applications, one should be reminded that QVHE is not an exact topological phenomenon and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-29 Kai Qian , David J. Apigo , Camelia Prodan , Yafis Barlas , Emil Prodan

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, a condensed matter analog of the parity anomaly, is characterized by a quantized Hall conductivity in the absence of an external magnetic field. However, it has been recently shown that, even in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Jan Böttcher , Christian Tutschku , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Can a generic magnetic insulator exhibit a Hall current? The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is one example of an insulating bulk carrying a quantized Hall conductivity and other insulators (with zero Chern number) present zero Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Daniel Kaplan , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

The interplay between quantum geometry and magnetic order offers a novel strategy for designing next-generation nanodevices. Here, we demonstrate that interlayer magnetic coupling in two-dimensional (2D) CoPSe3 bilayers enables precise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Zhenning Sun , Tao Wang , Hao Jin , Xinru Li , Yadong Wei , Jian Wang

The orbital-Hall effect (OHE), similarly to the spin-Hall effect (SHE), refers to the creation of a transverse flow of orbital angular momentum that is induced by a longitudinally applied electric field. For systems in which the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Luis M. Canonico , Tarik P. Cysne , Tatiana G. Rappoport , R. B. Muniz

We present experimental results on the quantized Hall insulator in two dimensions. This insulator, with vanishing conductivities, is characterized by the quantization (within experimental accuracy) of the Hall resistance in units of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Hilke , D. Shahar , S. H. Song , D. C. Tsui , Y. H. Xie , M. Shayegan